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Share Your Ideas

Share stories, ideas and photos from your congregation’s own offering promotion and check out what has worked for other congregations.

Thank-You Mailing

In late January, your congregation will receive a mailing thanking you for your support for the offering over the past sixty years. It will include several other items:

A sample letter to your congregation
Sending a letter to your members thanking them for their past gifts, and inviting and challenging them to greater support and engagement, is one of the strategies that has clearly made a difference for congregations that have used it. Feel free to create your own letter or adapt this sample.

Electronic Resources
If your congregation projects messages on a screen for greater visibility, consider using this cluster of electronic resources on the Tool Kit CD:

• One is simply a visual frame using OGHS artwork and graphics that leaves room for your messages and permits you to vary your presentation during Lent while raising awareness of the offering.
• Another offers a brief minute for mission that quickly interprets the history, mission, and distribution of the offering. Download the minute for mission PowerPoint file. After downloading, open the file in PowerPoint and save as a PowerPoint Show. This file can then be played as a slideshow on your computer.
• Both of these can be used with or without music and narration, and an adaptable script is provided for those who want to accompany the minute for mission visuals with their own narration.
• Finally, What in the World Is One Great Hour of Sharing?, a brief DVD, thematically explores how God is at work through the offering changing lives — including our own.

Downloadable Print Resources
Included for easy access on the Tool Kit CD is a variety of downloadable art and text resources that you can use in your own communications with members.

• Youth Activity Resource
  Where Is Your Treasure?, a resource for youth that can be used in a single class, helps them explore the global impact of their personal decisions.
• Children’s Resources
  Gracie’s Treasure, the latest in the series about the One Great Hour of Sharing fish, invites children ages 4 to 11 to discover along with Gracie that sharing is a central part of what God calls us to do.

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